November 20, 2007
The Law of Historical Memory
Monuments and memory, by Louis Bickford
“The original text … proclaimed the ‘eternal friendship between the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union.’ After German reunification in 1990, designers added a transparent piece of plastic on which they inscribed a new narrative, while the old can still be seen under the cover.”
Creative approach, I like it. I expect that during my lifetime a certain someone’s portrait will be removed from the front of a certain large gate across from a certain enormous square in the center of the city where I now live.
Cat: | Time: 3:23 pm (utc+8)
November 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
OTOH Lenin’s body is still in Red Square in Moscow so maybe not.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
moom: The maosoleum is another matter.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Eternal friendship. Maybe that monument goes back to Molotov-Ribbentrop. Russians and Germans are more like star-crossed lovers than eternal friends.